Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-08-05
OUIGIUAL AND BORROWED.


month.
Well, we'll The Louisville Co"-
rier.Journal says "the Democrats
oppose free whisky" And this,
too, from Kentucky
The New York Sun quotes the
platform adopted by Maryland
Democrats, and cOnstrues it as
rebuke to President Cleveland for
his civil.service policy.
The penitentiary at Sing'Sing'
New York, contains only one news
paper man, and he is assistant
chaplain. Newspaper men seldom
get left-even in the penitentiary.
An Indiana man recently desir-
ing to "reform" in the matter OF
chewing tobacco took to chewing
dried peaches. A piece got in his
throat and choked him to death.
The revised version of the Bible
has not been a success. The people
preter the old edition. Perhaps 1t
il because the revised version
ignores a certain warm place.
Ex-senator Mcdonald does not
think that President Cleveland
"has done a single thing to curry
favor with the people" This sounds
well, but is it true
A New Jersey man has been
cured of a rattlesnake bite by a
quart of applejack. Now, likely
as not. rattlesnake parties will be-
come the fashion.
The Atchison Globe announces
that a paper is soon TO be started
IN that city which will have for Its
motto "Beer for our friends, river
water for our enemies"
The career OF Charles II. Reed is
full of morals. From $4,000 a |
year to petit larcency is a long de-
scent, and yet extravaganza living
has caused larger dOwnfalls.
Mr.. Blaine, in a telegram to Mr..
Smalley, the New York TribRes
London correspondent, disposes Of
a recent report in these words; 81
do not expect to return home until
next year,
A farmer said: "One thing l
don't like about city folks-thoy be
either so stuck up that yer can't
reach them with a haystack pole,
or so blamed friendly that they for
get to pay their board"
When you 90 on a summer tour
don't worry if you find yourself in
a State in which the fishing laws
are very strict. No State ever
makes the Gshing laws until the fish
are all gone.
The King OF Spain draws a year
" salary of 81, 100000, but he gets
more enjoyment of this life ont OF
tin rattle and a stick of tafy than
he does from all his lucre. lie is
only fourteen months old.
The President is receiving invita-
tons from various cities in the
country. and David B. Hill from
the agricultural fairs throughout
New York State. The rivalry is
getting to be very interesting.
Prince Bismarck kept American
pork out OF Germany by the sham
CRY of trichina. lie is now trying
to work our potato crop out of the
German markets by the potato bug
scare. Despite his seventy'odd
years, Biz is tricky.
Gen. Pope says, in The North
American Review, that "during
our civil war, the most tremendous
convuIsion that is recorded in his
tory, New England produced
neither a great soldier nor a states
man of commanding influence"
The country will watch with
much interest the result of the
election in Texas this week to de-
eide the prohibition issue. Party
lines have been obliterated in the
contest, and there seems to be a
fair chance for an honest count.
A Pennsylvania politician offer
ed 10 sell ten delegates to cOnven-
ton for S10a head. The candidate
to whom the proposition was made |
had the politician arrested and a
court sentenced him to thirty days
in Jail. Serves the bOOdler right. !
There is a man out West who
has discovered how to extract il
Illuminating gas from potato bugs.
He will find plenty Of material to
Work on, and 1t won't cost him any
thing, either. Indeed, the farmers
will pay him to take it away.
Charles II. Reed, one of the law
yers who defended Guiteau, at
tempted suicide by jumping into
the North river from ferrybOat.-
He was rescued by police officer
and taken to the Chambers-street
hospital. The paddle-wheel of the
ferry-boat struck Reed on the head.
1t having been reported that
Mrs. Grover Cleveland had given
$500 to a church in Bennington, n.
Y, the clergyman in charge hast
oos 60 danv- tbot an,, snoh Gift had